'Burning smell' at evacuated Tube station

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British police evacuated an East London Underground station on
Saturday in a security alert and one eyewitness reported the smell
of something burning.

The Metropolitan Police said officers were investigating a
"security incident" at the Mile End station located on the city's
Central and District lines in London's East End. They gave no
further details.

Underground operator Transport for London said service on parts
of the two lines had been suspended by a "customer incident" at
Mile End.

Passenger Miguel Clarke told the British Broadcasting Corp that
uniformed officers had evacuated the station and the area had been
cordoned off. Clarke said he smelled "something burning like
rubber" inside the station.

The station in east London later reopened.

"The station has reopened," a spokesman for the city's transport
authority, Transport for London, said, adding that the Central Line
- one of the city's main underground arteries that runs through the
station - had also reopened.